'WITS SCHOLAR LUCIEN VAN DER WALT WINS CODESRIA AWARD'

From "WITS NEWS" 06.05.2010:

'Lucien van der Walt of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, was recently awarded the 2008/2009 Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) prize for best African doctoral thesis. His PhD thesis on "Anarchism and Syndicalism in South Africa, 1904-1924: rethinking the history of labour and the left" was praised by the jury of leading African scholars as “a major contribution to the re-reading of the social history of Southern Africa”. This is the second international prize that Professor van der Walt has received for his thesis. It was also awarded the 2008 international "Labor History" prize for the best dissertation in the field. Congratulations!'

Andreas Bieler - Large research grant on Chinese labour

Prof. Andreas Bieler has been awarded a grant of £275000 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for a project on ‘Globalisation, national transformation and workers’ rights: an analysis of Chinese labour within the global economy’ (RES-062-23-2777). The current restructuring in the People’s Republic of China is of phenomenal importance to the world economy as it is adding millions of workers to the global workforce. It will be investigated to what extent trade unions and NGOs have been able to protect the interests of Chinese workers within China and through cooperation with international labour organizations. The project will be located in the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice at Nottingham University and includes a three-year fellowship for Dr. Chun-Yi Lee, who will be responsible for the empirical research in China. The project will start in October 2011 and run for three years. [Project proposal]